U.S. Rep Diana Degette was mocked Wednesday for her comments about ammunition clips and magazines, and for a statement she issued in an attempt to clarify her comments.

DeGette spokeswoman Juliet Johnson on Wednesday said: “The congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault magazine ban for years and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism.”

And that, also, is wrong. (And what the heck is an “assault magazine”? Is that something for slaying flies?)

James Holmes sits with defense attorney Tamara Brady in the courtroom during his arraignment on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. A judge entered a not guilty plea for Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others during a shooting at a movie theater in Aurora on July 20, 2012.

As the Senate debates seven gun control measures today – and we believe late into the night – I wanted to talk a little about our coverage of this event and why you may have to sign on to denverpost.com to find out the resolution of some of the most controversial bills.

The Denver Post has four reporters at the Senate, as well as a videographer and a photographer. We will soon add a fifth reporter. Our plan is to be able to have enough people there to listen to the debate, send it out to readers on twitter, via our blog and our website and still have a comprehensive package of stories for tomorrow’s paper.

Reporters Lynn Bartels, Tim Hoover. Kurtis Lee and Ryan Parker are moving on and off the floor of the Senate as they monitor the bills they are assigned to cover. They will stay until the debate is over, whether that is at 9 p.m. (a dream, I suspect) or the wee hours of the morning.

With the debate over guns fully heated up in Colorado, we are getting a lot of calls and emails about how we describe the weapons now under discussion at the statehouse and in Washington.

I struggled to answer the questions and concerns intelligently, so turned to my colleague, production manager John Ealy, whose job it is to help The Denver Post settle on consistent definitions, spellings and usage — what we call “style.” He has recently researched the issue and updated the internal guide we use when writing and editing stories to reflect our latest thinking on the matter.

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